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In Greek mythology , Thrasos [ pronunciation? ] ( Ancient Greek : Θράσος) is the personified concept of boldness .
Although the word θράσος itself could be used both in the positive (" courage ") and the negative ("over-boldness, insolence") senses, [1] in the only context where Thrasos appears as a personification (a daemon ), it is definitely a malicious and suspicious being, mentioned together with Hybris and Atë and opposed to Dike . [2]
According to Euripides in his play Agamemnon :
- But an old Hubris tends to bring forth in evil men, sooner or later, at the fated hour of birth, a young Hubris and that irresistible, unconquerable, unholy spirit, Recklessness [Thrasos], and for the household black Curses, which resemble their parents. [3]
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- Aeschylus , Agamemnon in Aeschylus, with an English translation by Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph. D. in two volumes , Vol 2, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press , 1926. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library .
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